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Job summary

The Red Hat Global Partner and Technical Enablement team is looking for a Senior Manager, Technical Enablement Strategy and Readiness to provide the team's strategic direction and guide partner and internal technical enablement activities.This role is critical to Red Hat's continued success by ensuring that our partners and our internal technical field roles (solutions architects and consultants) are ready and able to position, showcase, and deliver Red Hat products and services. You will need to work closely with Red Hat’s product and technology business units to understand Red Hat’s overall product strategy, competitive positioning, and development and release cycles to then develop and carry out an effective field enablement approach. Additionally, you will need to work in tight collaboration with the Global Sales Enablement and Development and Red Hat University (RHU) teams is required to develop and carry out a comprehensive end-to-end strategy. This role can be located anywhere in North America, preferably Raleigh, NC or Westford, MA however.

Primary job responsibilities

Understand, define, and carry out the enablement strategy for Red Hat’s product offerings for consultants and solutions architects (this includes internals and partners)

Create and refine role-based learning paths in collaboration with the functional leadership team

Work closely with all of Red Hat’s product business units to understand upcoming product releases, create an appropriate enablement plan, and track execution of the plan

Refine the existing "Readiness Toolkit" model in collaboration with the business units to ensure the field is appropriately enabled at the time of product/solution release